secretary is leading a bipartisan trip to the border today amid new information obtained by nbc news the humanitarian emergency at the border is only escalating. welcome to friday. it s meet the press daily. i m chuck todd. president biden left the white house a short time ago. he spoke to reporters about china, russia and vaccines. he is about to land in atlanta where he will visit with asian community leaders today amid the fallout over the atlanta spa shootings. his first stop is cdc headquarters coming as the administration announced a loosening of guidance for schools due to promising data about transmission rates in the classroom. in new published guidelines, the cdc calls for three feet of social distancing in schools as long as masks are worn and community transmission in general is not high. this could pave the way for more kids back in the classroom. obviously, three feet cuts the amount of space you need to find to see how big of a classroom you need. the whit
but, man, has trust been absent in washington, d.c., for at least four years and for some time. it is encouraging for someone like me to see trust being built and we were able to get something done tonight. yeah. go ahead, keith. can i just say too, though, that the first three or four months of this biden administration, they were doing a really good job of one thing, of overdelivering and underpromising. what has happened since that time is that the reverse has been taking place. at first it was setting all of these covid deadline that were too easy to accomplish, but they exceeded them and passed the american rescue plan. and then we moved into the summer, and after afghanistan and negotiations over infrastructure and the build back better plan, it feels like we ve moved away from where the biden administration was trying
unanimously rejected the president s announcement that boosters would be approved by today for the general population. it s a tough time for president biden on other fronts. his entire domestic agenda is in jeopardy as time is running out for a deeply divided congress to pass his mega infrastructure bill. while overseas france is furious over being blind sided by the u.s. on that $60 billion submarine contract. and all the nato allies are burning from the messy withdrawal from afghanistan. the pentagon having to admit instead of isis bombers its drone strike in kabul killed ten civilians including seven children and an aid worker for a u.s. charity. a new crisis at the border with 15,000 stranded haitians living under a bridge between texas and mexico. we begin with the pfizer trial and nbc s gabe gutierrez residence in spokane, washington. this is very promising news for families, but the current covid
the adult dose. this morning a leading pfizer executive telling savannah guthrie they re submitting their report to the fda for review as soon as to believe. we re hopeful and expectant that the fda will approve the vaccine based on the data we have. the level of antibody the vaccine is generating in children 5 to 11 matches the level of antibody that we know provides protection for individuals 16 years of age and older, and the fda set the guidance along those lines. that s their expectation as well, and we believe we ve met that expectation. also today, the biden administration announcing travel restrictions on the european union and the uk will be relaxed for vaccinated travelers beginning in november. lifting what has been a major irritant and cause of resentment against the u.s. that news as the white house faces another embarrassing missed covid deadline, this time on boosters after an fda panel
said. it still has to be reviewed by the fda, which is a key step, but the data looked very promising. the fact that this lower dose of vaccine was able to have similar antibody effects that we saw in teens and adults is incredibly good news, and i think now it s going to be just working through the process and then i think there s going to be a lot of parents, there are a lot of parents who are anxiously awaiting this, and anything we can do to get even some of this population vaccinated is going to be a very helpful thing. and what are you seeing, dr. nyack, at your children s hospital? because we ve seen terrible, terrible data on the recent surge in covid cases among children nationally. yes, we ve certainly seen a lot more pediatric cases. our vaccination rates in this area are very good in adults which has been helping us, but clinically when i m on the floors we ve seen kids of all ages who have been hospitalized with covid-19. so this vaccine is going to be